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So Chris Hoy is the 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. So many questions – not least, is cycling even a proper sport? With four cyclists and no footballers in the Top 10 candidates, we felt it entirely fitting to launch the inaugural FOOTBALLSUP Football Personality of the Year awards.
In what will become a regular feature, Footballsup will review a football related book – playing to our mantra of ‘everything football’. As an initial offering, we’ll use our recent favourite (that’s not strictly true – it’s certainly a favourite but not actually that recent)… 1. David Peace – The Damned Utd David Peace tells [...]
In football writing, journalism and commentary, you hear the occasional, but recurring, adjective/phrase that seems ‘out of place’ – words that have no place in the vocabulary of your average football fan. Yet, they only ever seem to crop up in reference to football. I’m not talking about ‘dominant’ or ‘slide rule pass’ here – [...]
I am watching ‘Have I Got News for You’ on BBC 2 – and they have just featured this video: http://footballsup.com/2008/11/a-day-for-videos/ In these Internet enabled days, its amazing where your work can be cited. But the BBC, on prime time TV? Beyond even our wildest dreams* First BBC 2, next the world… * Disclaimer – [...]
15 games in, how have the Premiership managers fared so far this season? We take a look… 1. Chelsea – ‘Big Phil’ Scolari Up until a couple of weeks ago, there would have been no complaints. But after home defeats to both Liverpool and Arsenal in the last few games, along with stuttering progress (not [...]
Yep, that’s right. Playalikes. Lookalikes are ten-a-penny – anyone can make Dirk Kuyt look like Sloth from the Goonies, or Peter Reid look like a monkey. It takes more to put two people together stylistically and functionally; players who remind you of one another, players with similar styles – players that could be clones of [...]
Torres starts for Liverpool, while Lucas comes into the side for Xabi Alonso, while Fulham remain unchanged from the side that defeated Tottenham. Jermain Defoe and Lassana Diarra are both injured for Portsmouth, replaced by John Utaka and Richard Hughes. Hull are unchanged from the 2-2 draw with Man City. Lampard does indeed make it [...]
Ahead of the Game is the excellent daily news digest from The Times Online. News today includes Gallas hitting out at his youthful team-mates, David James’ opinion that mising out on Euro 2008 will be a good thing, and the news that Maradona may still not get the Argentina job. It hits your inbox at [...]
Three games take place tonight – Sunderland take on Blackburn at the Stadium of Light, Burnley face a daunting visit to Chelsea, and the pick of the night is Liverpool’s visit to Tottenham. Will ‘Appy ‘Arry’s great cup run continue? You could say both sides are the form team in this one, but with Liverpool [...]
